The Staging Server is Dead! Long Live the Staging Server! Edith Harbaugh, CEO [email protected] @edith_h @LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly.com
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
The Staging Server is Dead! Long Live the Staging Server!
Edith Harbaugh, CEO [email protected]
@edith_h
@LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly.com
About Me
• Cofounder & CEO, LaunchDarkly
• Podcast Host, “To Be Continuous” @continuouscast
• BS Engineering Harvey Mudd College
• Engineering Manager, Epicentric & Vignette
• Product, Monster.com, EasyBloom, TripIt
• Marketing, Concur
@Edith_H
It’s time to kill your staging server
• Dark age of software
• DevOps
• Why you should kill your staging server
• Objections
• A staging server lives!
@Edith_H
Tsunami Software Releases
@Edith_H
DevOps
@Edith_H
@Edith_H
Development Change
Operations Stability
QA Reduce Risk
In a world where functionality is cheap, easy and reversible, how do organizations change?
@Edith_H
Development
Operations QA
STAGING
Traditional Software Development
@Edith_H
Developer Environments
QA PRODUCTION
Staging Servers Must Die
• Time
• Fall out of sync
• Expense
• Insecure
• Confusion
• Not validating true functionality
@Edith_H
The Better Way
@Edith_H
Developer Environments
QA PRODUCTION
Use Feature Flags to expose functionality when you want, to who you want
@Edith_H
Dial up/down the volume on your own timetable
@Edith_H
Advantages • True validation
• “You’ll never know all the issues a customer will see.”
• Instant Reversibility
@Edith_H
Objections • It’s too risky to push everything to production, untested
• Everything is never thoroughly tested. Better to have failsafe.
• What about for infrastructure? • EVEN BETTER – have a way to switch back,
rather than pushing everything live with no failsafe.
• Our contract says we must have a staging server • Why?
@Edith_H
When you might still want a staging server
• When stressing system to failure
@Edith_H
Kill your staging server • Move quicker
• Reduce risk
• Better quality software
@Edith_H
Launch, control, and measure your features
Edith Harbaugh, CEO [email protected]
@LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly.com
Related Documents
